It is so sad, that to almost everyone I meet who knows his name, Springsteen is the good-looking, young bloke from the 70′s who sang loud pop-rock classics like Born to Run, Badlands and Dancing in the Dark. And with each passing year, the fact that he is one of the greatest American song-writers, gets… [Read more…]
November 22, 2010
Something stirs from within us, whenever we protest. There is a tranformation, a certain change, in every protestor’s expression, her manner, her being. The descriptors are many, but language is but a substitute. For this one verb which makes us so very human. For every Aung San Suu Kyi, there is a man who blows… [Read more…]
July 8, 2009
One of the best tributes to Springsteen I have heard in a long, long time. Felt a deep passage of time.
August 21, 2007
A Death In The Family It is the end of a generation. As if all of us, suddenly passed on, into a land where we were no longer children, where we no longer had an imagination, where we could no longer say we were, truly, alive. The Boy Who Lived was mortal after all. And… [Read more…]
January 28, 2007
Why is that psychometric tests seem to ask you to take a stand about who you are and then consistently defend it? Why is that psychology today still seems so intent on finding that critcal narrative which unravels a person’s mysteries. At this point in my life, it seems to me that our everyday experiences… [Read more…]
January 15, 2011
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